Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonPeople seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonThere are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonA woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington